Hour 1 - Baby Snakes Bite Too
3/11/202637 mincomplete
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0:02Guaranteed human. Welcome to today's edition of the Clay Travis and Buck Suxton Show podcast.
0:09Welcome in. We are rolling into the Wednesday edition from all signs pointing towards Iran.
0:19Continuing what exactly is going to happen there.
0:22We will give you the absolute latest.
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0:31right now at MSNBC. And let's see, not the case at CNN or at Fox
0:43News. Doing all my reading, getting ready for the show today.
0:47What stood out to me is several different things that I want to dive into
0:52with Buck here off the top.
0:54But there are quotes from President Trump via Axios, a conversation that he had.
1:02And I grabbed one of those quotes.
1:05It's not audio. But President Trump told Axios, anytime I want the war to end,
1:12it will end. And Buck, I think that is likely true.
1:17And here is, to me, still the big question that we have been asking since
1:21this all started. Who is the acceptable leader for Iran that would allow this situation
1:29in Iran to end in some way?
1:34With the understanding that we would now, at least the Iranians would know, that at
1:38any point in time we could decapitate their leader.
1:42If this son of Khamenei is still alive, Moktaba, or however you pronounce his name,
1:49if he's still alive. Moktaba.
1:51You've got to say it like that.
1:52Moktaba. Say it like that.
1:53Moktaba. If he's still alive.
1:55I like the way you say it.
1:56Sorry. I'm not an accent guy.
1:58I can't do accents. I can do my voice, and that's pretty much it.
2:03So, if he's still alive, which I think is very much in question because they're
2:08dancing around with cardboard cutouts of him, if you didn't see that, as the representation
2:14of their new leader. Here is what I would say if he is still alive
2:18and if he is able to recover because there are reports that if he is
2:22still alive that he is severely injured and was harmed quite a lot in the
2:27blast that took place to begin this onslaught in Iran, his dad, his son, his
2:35wife, and his mom were reportedly all killed in one of those opening attacks.
2:42Let me just put this to you, Buck, and to all of you out there.
2:46Would you be very fond or willing to work in an expeditious and pleasing fashion
2:54if a country killed your dad, your mom, your wife, and your son?
2:59I would submit to you that if he is still alive, it is a non
3:03-starter that he could be the leader left in charge in Iran because I would
3:08not blame him. I would want America to die on a level that, frankly, or
3:12any other country that did this, on a level that would burn in my soul
3:16for the rest of my life.
3:18I think this could actually be worse because it's, you know, you're wounded.
3:22You didn't kill a terrorist.
3:24That doesn't seem ideal. There's, you've done a lot of this study.
3:28Terrorists who are wounded and don't die often end up being the most virulent of
3:33terrorists in their future years.
3:35So I would start with this.
3:37Him being in charge is unacceptable.
3:40And so I don't know if we have a leader that is acceptable, but I
3:45would say if he's alive, he is an unacceptable heir to the Iranian leadership.
3:51I think that we have seen the total military intelligence and particularly aerial superiority of
4:00the United States and Israel on display and substantial, a substantial diminishing of Iranian capability,
4:08particularly to make war of any kind outside of its own borders.
4:13I am not seeing anything about there's some other faction or some other group that
4:22could theoretically oversee a transition, take over.
4:26And so what I think is going to continue to be the case, Clay, is
4:29we have our Department of War and Secretary Hegseth and Trump degrading Iranian military capability
4:38and taking out senior targets, I do not see how this turns into a different
4:42regime at the end of it.
4:43And I felt that way the whole time.
4:46Now, perhaps that is what was baked in all along.
4:51We're being told that regime change was never, the administration is saying regime change was
4:55not the goal. Okay. You're taking out all the leadership in this country.
5:02And then you're going to have, to your point, perhaps a more virulent leadership coming
5:08right beneath it. And just justified, furious, like leave aside the politics.
5:12Again, everybody out there, just think if someone you knew killed your mom, your dad,
5:16your son and your wife, would you be likely to work in a in a
5:21positive manner with that country or that group ever?
5:24I. I think the answer is no.
5:28Yeah, that's obviously the correct assessment on that.
5:31So I think we're going to have a declare victory and cease aerial hostilities moment
5:39here within the next couple of weeks.
5:40I don't know when exactly.
5:41I'm obviously not on the high side, as we used to say.
5:45I don't have access to classified or any of that.
5:47And if I did, I wouldn't be talking about it here on radio.
5:49But my sense is that they're just going to realize the problem with our position
5:57on all this, our military position, is that if you can't force, if you don't
6:03have a ground force, you can't force change on the ground.
6:07And that is where we are.
6:09There is no Northern Alliance to work with.
6:12The Kurds, there's not enough of them.
6:14They don't want to get, I mean, they can't run the whole country.
6:16That's a non -started notice.
6:17People talked about the Kurds for about 24 hours until they took out a map
6:21and learned the basic demographics.
6:22We had that guy who was a military advisor in Northern Iraq, one of our
6:28listeners who wrote in and said, yeah, you're right.
6:30Yeah, of course. I was up there, too.
6:32I know the mindset of the Kurds with this stuff.
6:34They don't want any part of trying to police the rest of Iran.
6:38They couldn't do it on top of all that.
6:40So I don't see the way that this ends with a hopeful new future for
6:50Iran. I see this as we have defanged the snake, but there are going to
6:56be little baby snakes that grow fangs in time after this.
6:58That's how I don't see what the alternative is.
7:02There also is the question, and I think this matters, too, and I believe we
7:07have a cut of this, of other people talking about something that is being speculated
7:12quite significantly. It is, is the son actually alive?
7:16In other words, is this potentially an opportunity that Iran has taken to try and
7:24prevent the new leader from getting killed by actually elevating a leader who's already dead?
7:30And there's audio of that.
7:31I want to play that in a sec.
7:32But, Buck, the other part of this is if he is still alive, he may
7:37be protected from being able to be attacked.
7:39Because if they have him in a hospital, it's hard to take out someone in
7:44a hospital without killing a lot of other people.
7:47And then the same media that didn't care when Iran killed 30 ,000 people is
7:53suddenly going to be leading stories with, look at Israel and the United States targeting
7:58people in hospitals. Or they got the guy being treated, as you're starting to see,
8:03Iran has moved whatever assets they have remaining for the state into schools, into residential
8:11areas, so that when we are attempting to strike these assets, then they immediately cry,
8:17oh, look, they're just targeting innocents, as if this regime has any moral authority at
8:23all, given the fact that they killed over 30 ,000 protesters just in the beginning
8:28of this year. We've seen this in authoritarian, Muslim, mid -East states for decades, where
8:37the regime in charge, you have to remember, the regime in charge not only disallows
8:43there to be political opposition, they also recognize if they lose power, I mean, you
8:50just talked about the 30 ,000 protesters killed in the streets.
8:53Yes. You got to think, if you are a member of the besiege, which is
8:57the Islamic revolution's militia, if you will, the sort of street militia, street thugs, they
9:04had a very similar thing in Syria, I might add, called the shabiha.
9:08This is a common thing.
9:10You have the military, which you make sure is ideologically committed and radicalized to the
9:15overall cause of Islamism, jihadism, and then below that, you have this paramilitary organization that's
9:22meant to know block to block, house to house, who's doing what, and they have
9:27the total blessing of the state to be as vicious and disgusting and tyrannical as
9:33they want, as long as it's serving the interests of the state.
9:35Clay, those individuals, you have to always remember this, though, I know we've said there's
9:39an amnesty for the IRGC.
9:41Okay, well, that means that we're saying, put down your arms and we won't blow
9:44you up. You brought up, what happens if someone kills your wife, your parents, your
9:50kids, all of the above?
9:52You're going to forget that?
9:53You're going to, if you're now part of the new regime, you're going to say,
9:57hey, when you guys killed those 30 ,000 protesters, you know what, let's let bygones
10:01be bygones. No, in fact, the Qaddafi effect is, you better stay in power, or
10:06you may up with a bayonet in a very uncomfortable place.
10:11Like, bad things happen. And so, it's zero sum for the people in Iran who
10:17have been running the country.
10:19You've got America killing their leadership, and you've got whatever the opposition on the street
10:25could be, the Iranian street, if you will.
10:28Well, if they come into power, at a minimum, you've got to think you might
10:32be going to prison in some hellhole, and maybe even worse than that.
10:35So, my point, Clay, is they'll fight to the very end.
10:38There's no off -ramp for them, as far as they see.
10:41And that's not even taking into account the ideological commitment to stopping the Crusaders and
10:45Jews and all the, you know, death to America, great Satan stuff.
10:49That's just the basic hard, uh, uh, cold.
10:52hard political reality of the situation they face, which is why I was hoping that
10:57we would start to see a, oh, wow, there is some kind of door number
11:01two here, or there is something that they've got planned.
11:04No, we're just completely annihilating their military capacity, and then I think we're going to
11:10stop, and then we might have to do this again.
11:13It's going to be like mowing the grass, but it's a lot more expensive and
11:17human and monetary costs than mowing the grass.
11:20Yes, and also, again, the question becomes, who is even leading Iran, and I think
11:25this is the question. The new Supreme Leader, who they trotted out with a cardboard
11:29cutout at the rally, which doesn't suggest that he's actually that healthy.
11:34Yeah, that's like the opposite of a proof of life, when they have the cardboard
11:38cutout of you at the rally.
11:39No, no, that doesn't look good.
11:40A lot of you also were laughing in the comments.
11:44You were saying, hey, maybe we shouldn't criticize Iran that much about showing up with
11:48a cardboard cutout since we effectively had a cardboard cutout president for four years, which
11:52is... Fair point. Yeah, very fair.
11:55But here's the Washington Post, Jason Rezahan, saying what I think is really being contemplated
12:03at a significant level, is this guy even alive?
12:06Cut 12. I wasn't super surprised by his election.
12:09There's been a lot of talk that he might succeed his father when his father
12:13died. This speculation has been around for more than a decade.
12:18I also wonder if the fact that we haven't seen him indicates that he might
12:23not be alive. I mean, I don't think that there's a clear indication that anyone
12:29has spoken to him. The president of Iran, Masoud Pazeshkian, said today that neither he
12:34nor anyone else in his government had spoken with the younger Khamenei since he was
12:39appointed supreme leader on Sunday.
12:42So there's still so much confusion around this.
12:46And Buck, it could be, again, an opportunity to make it seem as if he
12:52is the leader when it makes it harder to target the actual leader.
12:55And there may be a relatively only handful of people that even know whether he's
12:59alive or not. But when you name a new supreme leader and he isn't going
13:03to be seen, that definitely raises questions about what his health actually is.
13:10Well, take your calls on this one.
13:13It's getting to the point where I think a lot of people are running out
13:17of patience on the plan here, whatever it may be.
13:21And I mean people who support Trump.
13:22I'm not talking about Trump haters, but maybe look, the polling has said this pretty
13:27consistently, Clay. As long as this is done this month, people are like, OK, maybe
13:32it was necessary. They know they're on a time that our team is on a
13:37timeline with this and it's a tight timeline.
13:39All right. We'll get back to it in a second here.
13:40The presence of first responders, villages, cities, the missiles that continue to rain down, the
13:46drones that continue to rain down on Israel.
13:49Israel, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews has been working there for many years.
13:53Their entire team is supplying bomb shelters, medical centers, critically needed, essential aspects of life
14:00as the attacks rain down on Israel since we have gone into Iran.
14:05I saw for myself they have hospitals in Israel that they have designed.
14:09It's really kind of amazing to see.
14:11They've designed them so that the parking garages can be the hospital itself.
14:18In other words, they take everybody off the upper floors because of the danger of
14:23attack and they relocate everyone.
14:26The entire hospital is taking place in the parking garages.
14:30Think about how crazy that is to have to do.
14:32That is one of the things that the IFCJ has helped to create.
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15:21Okay, why are we bombing the you -know -what out of Iran?
15:28What are we doing over there?
15:30What caused this to happen?
15:32Steve Whitcoff, who is a senior Trump Mideast negotiator, he says the following about why
15:42we had to do this and had to do this now.
15:44Hit it. Think about what this world would look like if you didn't have Donald
15:47Trump as the president. Because in a year, if you had someone who didn't have
15:51the courage to do this action, you'd have 30 or 40 nuclear bombs.
15:56And what would the world look like there?
15:57So thank God we have a president and leadership at the helm that makes these
16:03courageous decisions. 30 or 40 nuclear bombs if Trump didn't do this.
16:10Now, this is where it gets for a lot of people.
16:13We've been hearing that Iran's going to have nukes for a long time.
16:16I think Iran wants nukes.
16:18I think the Mullahs are evil.
16:19Like, I'm, I'm, I'm. very aligned with the administration's view of iran on i'm just
16:25saying clay it becomes a little trickier to sell people on the imminence of this
16:30threat when we've been hearing and there are clips circulating of netanyahu talking we've been
16:35hearing you know within within 60 days they're going to have within three weeks within
16:39four months for 20 years we've been hearing this and this is why this is
16:43why i think josh here let me see the josh holly thing we can come
16:45back here's josh holly saying it's time to declare victory and get out of this
16:49play seven what is there really that's left to do that we haven't already done
16:52i mean we have demonstrated to the world and anybody who's watching by the way
16:56that we have overwhelming military superiority and we know how to use it we have
17:01totally destroyed forever their nuclear program we have destroyed their ballistic missiles we have destroyed
17:07their navy i mean this has been a a total success in whatever it's been
17:1211 days and i thought the president's remarks last night that he could declare victory
17:16today and it would be a 100 victory i think it's true i think we
17:20ought to say to our heroes thank you for a job well done this has
17:23been absolutely amazing it's been astounding it's been historic and now it's time to declare
17:28victory all right clay i want your take on where holly is with this when
17:32we come back because declare victory and stop you know and move on is we're
17:37here holly is a trump guy to be clear he's been a trump guy all
17:40along so this is what you get from somebody who's aligned with the administration i'm
17:46not sure the administration doesn't also feel this with trump saying he can end at
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19:35just talking about uh the kamene situation uh mochtaba uh his son whether or not
19:42he is alive or not we're also playing some of the audio for you of
19:45josh hawley uh who is uh saying hey let's declare victory and end this thing
19:51um there is actually on the prediction markets buck uh a wager right now will
19:57mochtaba that is the ostensible new leader of iran be seen in public by the
20:02end of the month it's basically 50 50 so for those of you out there
20:07i mean we're still relatively early into march for those of you out there that
20:11are skeptical i would put myself into this camp uh about whether or not uh
20:16he is in fact alive the fact that we may or may not see him
20:21for the entire month of march is a sign that something might well be uh
20:26uh going on that is uh either he's severely injured or he is not even
20:32alive and they're trying to protect from having somebody else get taken out on josh
20:37hawley uh missouri senator josh hawley's been on this program a lot i know him
20:41i like him i think he's going to run for president buck um and so
20:46i think some of these statements that you're seeing that are uh occurring out here
20:51you should consider them as almost an early audition for the 2028 primary and let
20:59me explain so uh first of all i think declaring victory and saying hey we've
21:03gotten everything we need to get done is what is going to happen i would
21:07say at some point in march i think you and i probably agree when exactly
21:10that will be uh i think remains to be seen but think about the jostling
21:15and the jockeying that is going to go on we don't know what's going to
21:19happen there's a front page article today about trump increasingly asking people hey do you
21:25like marco rubio or jd vance better uh setting up we were talking about this
21:30off air an apprentice style uh runoff for who is trump going to endorse uh
21:37i think that trump will play this for everything it's worth um and we'll see
21:41what happens between jd vance and marco rubio i would be stunned beyond belief if
21:46senator ted cruz of tech Texas doesn't run, and increasingly, Josh Hawley might well run,
21:54too. And so I think you can start looking at this and say, okay, what
21:59is the lane? What is the lane under which they might run?
22:03And I'll give you a couple of takes here on how I see this developing.
22:09Ted Cruz sees himself, I think, as the foremost defender of Israel in the Republican
22:17Party right now. I mean, leaving aside Lindsey Graham, who's just totally out to crazy
22:22town on wanting to go to war with everybody.
22:25But so Ted Cruz, I think, sees himself as opposed directly to what I would
22:31say is the Ted Cruz.
22:32Sorry, the Tucker Carlson, J .D.
22:36Vance wing, which I think he's trying to define.
22:38It seems clear to me Cruz is going at Tucker Carlson.
22:42They're firing back at each other and trying to say Tucker is anti -Israel and
22:48Ted Cruz pro -Israel. And so that battleground is happening.
22:52I think he sees a lane there.
22:54Josh Hawley, I think, sees a lane as being the completely anti -intervention wing of
23:00the Republican Party, which is a lot of you out there in this group.
23:04I don't want to do anything external at all.
23:07I want to focus 100 percent on America.
23:10And I would say that that Marco Rubio and J .D.
23:13Vance are somewhere in that grouping, too.
23:16So I do think the story beyond the story here is Josh Hawley is saying,
23:21hey, it's time to declare victory.
23:22This is Josh Hawley trying to brand himself, I think, intelligently as the anti -interventionist
23:29wing of the Republican Party to potentially lay the groundwork for his presidential ambitions in
23:3628. Do you see that?
23:37Like, I think we agree that at some point Trump is going to declare victory.
23:41But I think Hawley speaking out in this way is about trying to establish what
23:46his lane would be if he is going to run in 28.
23:49He's going to try to pick up the mantle of I am America first.
23:54That is my lane. No new wars, everything.
23:56I think that's what he'll run on.
23:58I think you're right about the Hawley political assessment as it pertains to him and
24:04his future. I also think he's just concerned about where this goes, if this continues
24:09on for the Republican Party.
24:10And this may sound hokey, corny to some people, but for the country, I think
24:15there are concerns about what can happen here if the mission set drags on or
24:23if there is a lack of clarity about what can be accomplished with what we're
24:29willing to do. And that's really the main thing here.
24:31Could we could we bring about regime change in Iran?
24:35Absolutely. If we were willing to do things that we absolutely should not do, that
24:40would require a lot of American investment and lives and time and effort, nightmarish levels
24:46of those things. So we don't want to do that.
24:50So since we don't want to do that, since we have a limited goal in
24:55this context of military intervention, let's keep it nice and limited.
25:00Got to got to keep this thing tight.
25:02Can't let it spill over.
25:04And I think that's what Josh Hawley is saying.
25:05And I think others are seeing this, too, because if there was some big other
25:12part of the plan than just blowing the crap out of all the Iranian military
25:16stuff and their leadership. OK, I think we would start to see that by now.
25:22I could be wrong. Maybe next week I come on and say, oh, wow, look,
25:25I think it's highly, highly unlikely at this point.
25:29So that means we all I think it would also be good to give us
25:33some sense as to what the military is.
25:35The military objective, Clay, just to leave Iran as toothless as a military force as
25:42possible. And then how close are we to that?
25:45Are we 75 percent of the way there?
25:47Are we more like, you know, 30, 40 percent of the way there?
25:49Well, what I think we're probably more like 75 percent.
25:52So that's that indicates to me that this thing could wrap up soon.
25:56But I'm actually with Josh Hawley on the it should wrap up soon.
25:59I mean, the whole declaring victory thing.
26:01And, yeah, we know we won.
26:03Obviously, they don't even have a military left.
26:04But enough is enough. President Trump is taking questions right now on the South Lawn
26:11of the White House. We will pay attention to that.
26:14It's being carried live on every network.
26:16He did say earlier, Buck, another quote, war will end soon.
26:22This is according to Axios.
26:23There is practically nothing left to target.
26:27Which I think goes directly to the mission has been completed.
26:34My concern, my concern, and we started off the show talking about it, is I
26:38don't think we can leave this guy, Mojtabi Khamenei, in charge.
26:44I just, and Buck's going to love my pronunciation of his name.
26:47You're not Team Mojtabi. We can't leave Little Mo.
26:50We can't leave Little Mo to go full Trump here.
26:53We can't leave Little Mo in charge.
26:56Because I just, again, whatever your background is, I just, I believe in vengeance.
27:04I believe in anger and revenge.
27:07Whatever your background is listening to us right now.
27:09If your dad, your mom, your wife, and your son all got killed by someone,
27:13would you ever shake hands with them?
27:15I never came here. Bye.
27:15for the rest of your life and work to make the world a better place?
27:19No, I bet almost all of you would be hell -bent on the vengeance for
27:23that act being done to your family.
27:25I don't think we're—leave aside the religion, leave aside everything else.
27:29There's no way this guy is a functional leader that benefits America.
27:33He cannot be in charge.
27:35There is a really important piece of the geopolitical analysis here that we haven't taken
27:41into account yet. And I think that's—at some level, that's just on us.
27:46We have to deal with a lot here.
27:47We're trying to bring things all together.
27:49But Whoopi Goldberg has weighed in on the situation.
27:54I almost spit my coffee out here.
27:58She has a take for us here about what's really going on.
28:02And, oh, she's tying in Epstein and Nancy Guthrie.
28:07This is quite a take, everybody, on the Iran aerial campaign.
28:11Play 13. It's just nutty as hell.
28:14It's nutty as hell. Yeah.
28:16And you're right. Every day is something new.
28:19And it's—you know, I was thinking about it yesterday because I thought, well, okay, why
28:25haven't we been talking about Savannah Guthrie and what's going on there?
28:29Why have we not been talking about the Epstein files?
28:33Because that's still there. This is meant to get us so worked up that we
28:39are unable to see anything else.
28:42The Kissinger of our era, Whoopi Goldberg, with Clay, Trump is bombing the crap out
28:49of Iran so that we're not talking about Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping.
28:53We didn't take this into account at the start of the show.
28:56Perhaps we need to reassess our analysis.
28:58I look at this, and she is a moron, right?
29:04But I don't think most people look to the star of Ghost, if I remember
29:08correctly, and the color purple as the most savvy political analyst of our time.
29:15The fact that the crowd clapped when she said that is, I think, more of
29:20an indictment than Whoopi Goldberg's awful decision.
29:24And so I can't believe that this is real and that ABC News would continue
29:31to support this show, which is just political propaganda.
29:35And every time we play a clip from The View, we should probably mention that
29:40we have both offered to go on The View.
29:42It would have made great sense for your book coming out, for my book coming
29:45out's promotion to an audience that otherwise might not see it.
29:49They won't allow reasonably intelligent people who disagree with them, by and large, to go
29:54on because they know that their arguments and their arguers are ultimately not very smart.
30:01And I will give credit to Elizabeth Hasselbeck.
30:04I don't think we played the cut.
30:06She used to be on the show, if I remember correctly.
30:08She lives here in Nashville.
30:10Her husband's a good football coach.
30:12And so I know them.
30:17And she did a great job actually arguing with some of the hosts on the
30:22show. I think they were talking about the Save Act, Buck, and she actually called
30:27out the audience and said, How many of you had to provide ID to be
30:30able to come watch this show today?
30:33And, like, the whole audience raises their hand.
30:36I mean, I do think, you know, the idea that it is racist, it was
30:40it racist of The View to require ID to come watch their show?
30:44It's such a ridiculous argument against it.
30:47We're going to talk about Tommy Clever, Bill Senator, about this in a little bit.
30:50I think you're missing the forest for the trees here.
30:54Republicans want to talk about the Save America Act so that we're not talking about
30:59the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, according to Whoopi Goldberg.
31:03That's where we are. That's our big plan.
31:05I will say, the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping is still really weird, and I have still
31:11been following it. Of course, but I don't think that Trump is trying to cover
31:14it up by starting a war in a foreign country.
31:16I mean, it's a very sad story, but I think that's the craziest take I've
31:19ever heard. Also, it's a crazy take because Trump isn't responsible for the Nancy Guthrie
31:26story, right? She at least followed it up by saying the Epstein thing, which is
31:30actually something you're hearing some people say on the left.
31:33But I haven't heard anybody suggest prior to Whoopi, hey, the reason we went to
31:37war is so we're not talking about the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping.
31:41And, again, I just come back on The View.
31:43Buck, they have huge staffs of people pitching them ideas all day long, every day.
31:49All you have to have to do that show is an IQ of 46 because
31:55they're coming to you on a regular basis saying, hey, here's a take.
31:59Here's a take. Here's three articles you need to read to be somewhat informed on
32:04this, and they won't do the bare minimum.
32:07How much prep do you think Whoopi Goldberg does for that show?
32:10Six minutes a day? Like, she shows up, gets her makeup done, has a conversation
32:15with her makeup artist. I don't even know if she reads the newspaper.
32:19I mean, it's actually an insult to the audience how little she actually spends prepping
32:24before she gets paid millions of dollars to go share her opinions, in my always
32:29humble opinion. I want to tell you, price picks.
32:32All 50 states, $5, you get back $50 in all 50 states.
32:38It's a great deal. You can play it from Washington all the way down to
32:42Florida. from Maine all the way down to Arizona.
32:46I think I'm getting the map pretty close there.
32:49Wherever you are across the country, width and breadth, all 50 states.
32:54Did you see last night?
32:55Some of you did. Our baseball team choked.
32:57We got beat by Italy in the World Baseball Classic.
33:00Now we've got to have Italy beat Mexico in order to advance to the knockout
33:04stage. Conference basketball tournaments are going right now.
33:08Buck is a diehard college basketball fan.
33:10That is underway right now.
33:12March Madness. NBA had a player score 83 points last night.
33:16You could have gotten a heck of a deal if you had taken the more
33:20on Bam Adebayo. All of that's going on right now.
33:23PricePix .com, code Clay. That is PricePix .com, code Clay.
33:27C -L -A -Y, $5 turns into $50.
33:30PricePix .com, code Clay. A lot of emails, a lot of talkbacks.
33:42Pouring in here, particularly on the Iran situation.
33:45VIP email from Tony. Buck, your assessment is spot on.
33:49War is a clash of wills.
33:50You cannot defeat an adversary through aerial bombardment only.
33:54Historical examples are endless. German bombardment of the Brits.
33:57Battle of Britain, North Vietnam.
33:59Massive B -52 carpet bombing.
34:01Sometimes when civilian casualties occur, it can strengthen resolve.
34:04I'm retired now, but I predicted early on this campaign about degrading Iran's capabilities.
34:08It has never been about regime change.
34:11If that is an accidental byproduct, so be it.
34:13Tony, I agree with you.
34:15I think that's the way administration feels, too.
34:17We're opening the door for the Iranians to throw the bums out, but they don't
34:20do it. They don't do it.
34:21We're just making sure that they can't hit us.
34:25Let me build on that, by the way.
34:26One thing that I do think is changing is the degree to which we can
34:31specifically target using drones is changing.
34:34Every war advances technology at a rapid scale, and I think what's happened with Ukraine
34:39and Russia, if you read about that war now, Buck, they're almost conducting the entire
34:45war via drone. Like, you can't even go outside and be seen at all because
34:50they will take you out, and I think the mechanized nature of this war and
34:56future wars is going to be so much different than anything we can comprehend that
35:01boots on the ground is going to become much less commonplace, period.
35:05Well, it also is a reminder that the calculation is different when you're sending drones
35:11to do this stuff than when you're sending pilots.
35:14The American people can handle a lot of drones getting blown out of the sky,
35:19and that hasn't even been happening.
35:21But I'm saying we can handle a lot of our drones.
35:22We lose drones. Okay, it's expensive.
35:24The second we have a pilot on video who is giving his name, rank, and
35:28serial number, things change real fast.
35:31We feel very different. And that is basic human emotion.
35:33I think that's very understandable.
35:35So that's a big difference in the calculation here.
35:37VIP email from Larry. Larry, as a member of the Naval Carrier Task Group during
35:41the release of the hostages during the Iranian hostage crisis, I've been waiting for payback
35:46for 46 years. President Trump knows he has a timeline and mandates from his base,
35:51which is always on his mind, to protect Americans and his America First agenda.
35:56Larry, I hope that's totally spot on.
35:58Again, I'm just voicing the unease that some have with, okay, this is going on.
36:05When does it stop? It's Trump's call about when it stops.
36:08And he's clearly got his eyes very closely affixed to that.
36:12I think that's a really astute email, Buck, because I do think there's probably a
36:16generational divide. You and I were not born and we're not young enough.
36:20I don't remember the hostage crisis.
36:23And so I think for people who are in their 60s, 70s, who live through
36:28the hostage crisis, who live through the bombings that have taken place that Iran has
36:32helped to make happen, it's different than if you're 30 today, than if you're 65
36:38today in terms of what you've experienced of the evilness of the Iranian regime.
36:43Younger people don't have as much of a tangible connection to it.
36:47Really good emails, both, I think, there.
36:49And we appreciate the VIP emails that we get all the time.
36:52We come back, Buck, you've got us off the top.
36:54I'm sure we're going to continue to talk about Iran.
36:56President Trump, we've got a couple of cuts from him just now as he was
37:01outside the White House. And another super rich lib, the Starbucks CEO moving to Florida,
37:08Clay. Talk about it. This is an iHeart Podcast.
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